Tuesday, 14 July 2009

iotop - I/O monitor

Well, just when I thought I'd stumbled on the final top like utility (see my previous articles on htop and atop), I found another: iotop

iotop watches I/O usage and displays I/O bandwidth read/write usage for processes/threads. It will also display the percentage of time processes spent while swapping in and also waiting for I/O to complete. To install iotop on a Ubuntu system use: